Netflix has added a Jennifer Lawrence film where she previously admitted that, despite sleeping with the director, she didn’t really understand it.
Having just added Perks of Being a Wallflower last week, the streaming platform has now added another beloved film to its growing catalogue.
In addition to this, whilst they already have some beloved Jennifer Lawrence films, such as Passenger, Don’t Look Up, and Serena, they have added one of the Die My Love star's most beloved films to their catalogue of movies.
In adding her film Mother!, however, Netflix has arguably added the most controversial film of the actor’s career.
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In case you’ve never seen it, Mother! stars Lawrence alongside Javier Bardem, and follows the pair as a poet and his wife, whose life turns to s**t after uninvited guests begin arriving at their house.
Directed and written by Darren Aronofsky, the movie was intended to be a metaphor for humanity’s treatment of the planet Earth, with Lawrence’s character intended to represent the Earth.
Many, however, found the film slightly too abstract, with Lawrence actually admitting she didn’t fully understand it herself.
When asked where she was on a scale of ‘one to confused’ by Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live, she said: “I’m going to be honest. Well, I was sleeping with the director, so I had CliffsNotes. So… five? Or a four.
“But if anybody needs any tips on understanding their films, you know what to do!"
When Cohen responded by saying, "F*** the director?" she responded with: "Yeah!"
Lawrence also revealed that the relationship with Aronofsky was ‘unhealthy’, especially during the promotional tour of the film.
She told Adam Sandler during Variety's 'Actors to Actors' series on YouTube: “Normally, I promote a movie, you put the work into promoting it, ask people to go see it, and then it’s just kind of out of your hands. I normally just kind of let it go. Dating the director is different.
“We’d be on the (promotional) tour together. I’d come back to the hotel, and the last thing I want to talk about or think about is a movie.
"He comes back from the tour, and that’s all he wants to talk about, and I get it. It’s his baby.
“He wrote it. He conceived it. He directed it.”
She admitted, however, that all she wanted at times on the press tour was to talk about anything else, adding that when he started reading reviews to her, she realised it was 'not healthy'.
"I finally was just like, ‘It’s not healthy. Neither of us are doing it because if I read it, I start getting defensive.’ Especially because it’s my man," Lawrence said. "I don’t want to sound in an interview that I’m defending what we’re doing in any way. It’s awesome, what we did."
The film is arguably the most confrontational and provocative of Aronofsky’s career, admitting this year it was the equivalent of him ‘running around with both middle fingers up to the sky’.
This led to a 68 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes and 6.6 on IMDb, indicative of how split Mother! left people.
Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert gave the film a 3.5/4-star review, saying: “At times horrifying, at times riveting, at times baffling, and at times like nothing you've ever seen before.”
Caryn James of BBC.com, however, gave the movie a two-star review, calling it a ‘pretentious mess of a film.’
She went on to add: “It is full of vapid characters and overwrought imagery, which Aronofsky seems to think add up to allegory.”
If you want to know where you lie on that continuum, Mother! is now available to watch on Netflix in the UK.
Topics: Netflix, Jennifer Lawrence, TV and Film, Film, Sex and Relationships
Michael Slavin